First off, never underestimate the stupidity of BofA, I had one that was in a trust back when the market tanked and I was going down in flames. 

Be careful what you say and how you say it... by saying ALL the brokerages do anything in connection with a commission or fee charged for services may be bordering on anti-trust law infringement...No brokerages should be communicating about fee structures, and fees are SUPPOSED to be strictly determined based on what your brokerage is supplying to the customer.Maybe I am just a scaredy-cat.

We have rent control, nutty pro tenant/anti growth politicians, and even worse cash flow.

The Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws are the reason you should be worried about being caught.If you feel strongly about using your retirement funds to finance this deal, check out threads on self-directed IRAs.

This is the anti-guru website, so people like to help and what they get in return is positive networking connections and they learn by teaching.

I am not as anti-guru courses as the majority of people here.

Some people are completely anti-debt, no matter how productive that debt might be, and would say pay off ASAP.

The commie-pinko greenie weenies (No offense to any here, just playin') say that copper has natural anti-microbal properties and is healthier than CPVC, which might impart toxins into your drinking water.

Several threads I have read on BP of late and some personal business dealings have caused me to research anti fraud provisions quite carefully of late.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Flippers, the real estate investors who buy homes on the cheap and quickly resell them at a profit, just got a reprieve from the Federal Housing Administration.In an effort to help stabilize housing prices and unload some of the foreclosures that are flooding low-income communities, the mortgage insurer extended a waiver of its anti-flipping regulations through 2012.The waiver, which was initially issued in 2010 and set to expire this month, suspends regulations that prohibit the agency from insuring mortgages used to purchase homes that are bought and resold in less than 90 days."